9 Assessing and explaining the impact of New Labour ’ s market reforms
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چکیده
This chapter summarises the evidence assembled in the previous chapters covering different aspects of the market-related reforms of the English National Health Service (NHS) under New Labour. It tries to assess the extent to which the objectives of the reforms had been met or the concerns of sceptics vindicated by the time that New Labour lost power in May 2010. It concludes by discussing the nature of the evidence available and the challenges of evaluating large-scale, complex, system-level changes against a background of ongoing policy initiatives, parallel policy developments and a large increase in the financial and real resources available to the NHS.
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